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Microsoft To Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services (csoonline.com)
According to Microsoft's new Terms of Services agreement, you could get banned for "offensive language," resulting in the termination of your Gold Membership and/or any Microsoft account balances. The changes go into effect on May 1. CSO Online reports: [I]f you and a significant other are getting hot and heavy via Skype, you better watch your language and any nudity because that, too, can get you banned. The ban hammer could also fall if Cortana is listening at the wrong moment or if documents and files hosted on Microsoft services violate Microsoft's amended terms. But how would Microsoft even know if you had truly been "offensive?" Well, that part falls under Code of Conduct Enforcement, which states, "When investigating alleged violations of these Terms, Microsoft reserves the right to review Your Content in order to resolve the issue." Microsoft did add, "However, we cannot monitor the entire Services and make no attempt to do so." I'm not sure that will make you feel better, as another portion states that Microsoft "may also block delivery of a communication (like email, file sharing or instant message) to or from the Services in an effort to enforce these Terms or we may remove or refuse to publish Your Content for any reason."
Really, who uses offensive language on Skype?
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It looks like typical process. You must be reported for your content to be reviewed, and the other party can provide it to Microsoft.
In other words, MS isn't actively monitoring, so if me and friends are on Skype playing a game and we F-this and F-that, nobody's going to give a shit. But if I start swearing at someone on Skype during gaming, well, that someone could report me and provide chat logs or session times to MS, at which point I'd probably be banned or punished in some way.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
What the fucking fuckity fuck.
What is offensive is subjective... and some times culture based.
To me the word Microsoft is extremely offensive. So they should block that one right away!
Linux Apple Google
What business would risk putting their documents on One Drive / Office with these terms?
No sane business would.
Between Windows 10 and now this, Microsoft is over for the business world. Over.
Please define "Offensive".
Audience matters. What offends one audience, won't offend another.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
You can't, actually, do that on /., which rejects Cyrillic characters outright. But on most sites and with most applications you can replace the characters common between Latin and Cyrillic with those from the latter in the offensive words, and it will defeat today's filters. Of course, the censors will wise up to the technique eventually, but for now it works...
Not even your target will see it, screaming internally at his inability to call you "an asshole" in response, while enraged over your ability to use the terms like that with impunity.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Dear Microsoft:
Fuck you, you fucking fuckers.
Sincerely, Everyone.
Tired of FB/Google censorship? Visit UNCENSORED!
A vaguely word ToS that would ban, what, 80% of XBL users if they wanted to.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
Micro-shaft seems intent on driving it's crappy products right into the grave. The new Skype is terrible; they seem intent on making it worse. And who pays $100+ for Office when there are free alternatives?
Micro-shaft is a huge, sitting duck for FOSS to overtake. But it probably won't, since FOSS developers almost universally are terrible at management and organization. So Micro-shaft is probably safe.
A dumb pipe should be a dumb pipe.
It should be an insulated pipe (i.e. end-to-end encrypted).
Do Microsoft and whoever really want to be considered responsible for everyone's sh*t-stained content out there? Really?
They should be doing everything in their power to not be technically able to know what's flowing.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Seriously, let MSFT put such silly restrictions on 'use of their services', for one thing why are they snooping on anyone's conversation on Skype, even if they otherwise suggest they can't/won't/don't, having a Term of Service that implies otherwise immediately means I won't use any MSFT services as the only way to enforce such restrictions IS to 'snoop', so whatever they say to the contrary they clearly are.
Most importantly any company who tries to apply nebulous concepts such as 'offensive' is going to ban so broadly that people will leave it 'en masse'. Consider if I need to make sure the message "Hey, I need your pole in my hole NOW!" could easily get banned because of the 'offensive nature of it' when all I meant is I need the flag pole in the hole I dug ASAP. Basically MSFT has just guaranteed they'll lose users en-masse as this stupidity starts kicking in.
Now, just need to either set up a competing service or just move to a less silly provider & MSFT will die a nice death.
MSFT can ban whatever they want, its their service, happily we can choose to use any other available services. This is the way the free market works. AWESOME.
I'm getting real sick of your shit, Pajeet Nutella.
Really? Even in private conversation on Skype between your friends, family and what not?
I can understand on xbox live if you're playing with strangers, but this make zero sense every where else.
To be honest, I still don't understand why anyone use Skype right now, it's trash, always was trash and is a poor excuse of an IM client.
This is MS boilerplate to give them legal excuse when they investigate reports of this stuff. That's really all, they don't want to be the thought police (cause its not profitable).
Gee, its pretty similar to everyone else's boilerplate in fact and while I am no fan of MS, the article really just another stab at them from either a misguided idiot or hater. Hell yes I do want them to be able to look at chatlogs or whatever and ban the little foul-mouthed 12 year olds who scream obscenities on Xbox live games. But with the intergration of other services, this will have a knock-on effect to those services as well, and MS needed to update their policy to cover that. So yeah, being a bad parent and lettin your kid cuss like a sailor while playing Fortnite might cost you your Office account now. Good, be a better parent! And to the writer of that article, go listen to the kids playing pretty much any game with adults and you'll quite easily figure out what "offensive language" they are talking about. I've heard the word "fag" so much its lost all meaning and context to me now, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
As for the rest, MS is basically saying they are going to start putting filters in place (like Content ID but before you publish instead) so you might not be able to share nude pics of Kim Kardashian or whoever, or send a racist screed over Skype, or share graphically violent images via email (Lookin at you PETA).
The final bit of silliness is "Is this in regards to FOSTA/SESTA?" Uhm, no. Its not. Because the better policy there is "Don't police anything at all" in order to avoid liability. Its a clarification of existing MS policies summed up into a single document that now covers multiple integrated and overlapping services. You start tying them together and you have to change your docs so they cover the services as a whole now. Skype has always had a policy about transmitting content, no one hears much about it because a) getting another MS live account is as easy as making a new gmail account to verify it, and b) news about such never went mainstream. But yes, Skype has indeed been blocking the transmission of certain content for a very long time now, based on hash matching or something I guess, cause even I have run into it with friends trying to share stuff with me (putting it into a non-standard compressed file gets around it usually). Office, now hosted in the Cloud, has had the same rules about content as well since its inception as a cloud service.
I'm not welcome anywhere.... ... I give up.
Another consultant who stuck it out.
"We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx..."
Anyone using the latest Windows desktop client. Who the $%$# designed that version ?
Really, who uses offensive language on Skype?
You forgot the <sarcasm> tags and you were apparently taken literally in some way?
I think that censorship is insane and offensive language is sometimes the only or at least the best way to express certain emotional states or to show sincerity. Right now I'm still reserving judgment because I think the story is quite likely an early April Fool's joke. (The problem with that theory is why pick Microsoft? A cunning selection of the highly improbable target of the joke to make it seem credible?)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
So, Microsoft is admitting that they can read or watch and listen to encrypted connections. Well, with "Legal Intercept" we knew that for some time. I banned Microsoft from my PC years ago in favor of Linux (KDE Neon on Btrfs). If you don't want MS to be your nanny then its time you moved to Linux as well.
Running with Linux for over 20 years!
Puritan mindset alive - God is watching (over) you, and from there an upbringing "don`t put foul words in your mouth", and on it goes, just always doing the "right" thing, in case of doubt, even more right, to be on the save side. Corporate culture, fitting in automagically....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTLBsIzk3UE
"Cortana listening at the wrong moment"?? That's so wrong on several levels.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
"Sorry, I can't, Skype doesn't allow it."
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
How the heck do they think they will apply these TsofS properly without banning games like GTA for example? Banning graphic violence basically means banning probably half of all games played on X-Box. So just by playing a graphically violent game I'll get banned? Thanks MSFT now I know for sure I want to get rid of all MSFT shit.
This, will be how AI is actually used wherever it's implemented. To correct your aberrant behavior, human. Human bad. Human misbehave. Human go to time-out. Human stay there.
They just started this crap with Ubisoft and Ranbow 6 Siege... The net affect: what appears to me to be a 90% dropoff in-game chat overall. No one chats anymore for fear of ban. No gg's, nothing. Good job SJW, silence & intimidation is your ultimate goal anyways.
Who the F is surprised that in video games that simulate combat and you win by killing each other that there would be toxic pvp communication? I guess we're supposed to virtual kill each other and then go "jolly good show my good boy. tee hee heem you got me."
So now, MS will be able to cut you off from your cloud data, documents, contacts, and communications because of their AI's interpretation of offensive.
What do you expect when they put a fucking paki in charge?
How about a chat/video/voice client that has a real p2p component. I only know of one on the market and it's Zyptonite. Unfortunately the clients are closed source.
See here: https://app.zyptonite.com/ [zyptonite.com]
Is there anything that is free software?
Hey, who else is feeling good about the fact that we don't have any clue what the fuck a Microsoft "Gold Membership" is?
High five me.
I love it when I hear bad news about some shitty technology or corporate web nonsense that I didn't even know existed.
You are welcome on my lawn.
She's beautiful.
Who?
The FBI agent reading this.
Inheritance is the sincerest form of nepotism.
So Microsoft is literally reserving the right to permanently lock you out of your own desktop if it doesn't like what you're doing it.
The web is mostly pirated material, porn, and everything else no government wants you to have free and easy access to.
Given a free hand, most people would stay home and browse pornhub.
Search "Celebrity Deepfakes"
That shit has every celebrity in the world shitting their pants, because Celeb porn is going to be everywhere soon.
I saw how shutting down Pirate bay has worked, lol.
Sure businesses use the web these days, but 90% of people using the web are looking for porn of some kind.
That covers a lot of ground these days. :)
So, lay back and fire up You favorite Tubgirl (or Goatse) video, porn will be here for a loooong time. :)
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
NT.
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
Pass some unconstitutional bill that bans sex talk, and the Gestapo starts monitoring your communications. Voice to text analysis, and skin filters enabled!
But they were all consenting adults.
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
https://ilya-sher.org/2018/03/23/google-deleted-our-g-suite/
to not use Microsoft product.
Spam, with no content but "Hey, check this out", and a link to goatse or something stored on OneDrive. They're saying this to give themselves cover when they nuke porno-spammers.
Any online cloud storage place that lets you share links to your content is infested with this. It's absolutely rampant, along with links to virus-infected documents, images of 419 scam letters, etc. It's the latest dodge to avoid spam filters.
Now, if they actually do start playing the eavesdropping Mrs. Grundy with peoples' Skype conversations, then we have another issue. But I really doubt that's going to happen. As someone else said, it's probably going to require a complaint about the content they're hosting to trigger action.
This year marks another interesting milestone, another Linux desktop install and attempt to try to 'survive' without Windows. It's doable now, there's enough gaming choices for native Linux and plenty of emulation available to get a rich fulfilling gamer setup on Linux, at last. And in the nick of time, last fucking thing I need is my frickin' operating system telling me what I can and cannot type, look at, send and receive. Outrageous.
Still running a dual booting box, but, Windows 10 is seeing very little use now that I've got Linux taking over it's duties and doing a fine job too!
The point of posting? Try Linux. Start with Mint if you're frightened of Linux. It's plenty easy to use, as easy as Windows most of the time. Microsoft has pulled a lot of really dirty stunts over the years. This latest is the straw that breaks this camel. Done, finished. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gunna go play some SimCity 4 which runs fantastic on wine and Linux, flawless.
"B-B-B-BUT they're are a private company and can do what they want with their platform."
Not so easy to keep enabling and apologizing for these "liberal" control-freak companies when you're in their sights too, huh lefties. Sleep in the bed you've made.
No it's not, September child.
But it is close to April, as in April Fool's day... And yet, that actually appears to be an authentic Microsoft website and the MSA does include the actual word "offensive" and MS is not known for its corporate sense of humor. Right now I'm leaning the other way, that it is for real, as in real crazy.
I'm really straining my brain for some way to interpret this as reasonable. Maybe it's a new make-work project to avoid firing people? From a company that used to have a policy of continuously firing the bottom-ranked people? Now Microsoft will just assign them to offensive-language-checking and they will sit around for 8 hours a day reviewing the complaints of "offensive" language? You have to admit that (1) It's a bottomless pit, and (2) They won't have to fire anyone because they'll all quit. Yeah, there will be one Guinness record holder who actually likes the work and wants to defend his world record, but the rest of them will soon be gone.
Let me offer a suggestion to actually do this in a sane fashion. It involves my old fantasy of EPR (Earned Public Reputation). As I've noted before, this should be a multidimensional concept, and the basic idea to to save time by favoring the nice people and filtering the un-nice people. If the default setting is just slightly positive, then most of the trolls and sock puppets are already banished to their private limbo, but let's consider the simple dimension of "politeness" and how it works with real people. If someone says something rude or offensive, then you would be able to rate that comment as negative on the "politeness" dimension, citing the rude comment as evidence.
This would be used in (at least) three ways. First, (from your perspective as an identity earning a reputation) if you are massively and repeatedly impolite, then that might tip your overall EPR into the bit bucket. Second, (as a reader) if you are easily offended by offensive language, then you could increase the weighting on that specific dimension of "politeness", and just stop seeing the offensive people (even if they have favorable reputations in other dimensions). Third, (as an earner of EPR) if you want to become more polite, then you can check your own rating on the politeness dimension and tone your rudeness down a bit.
BtW, the EPR should be linked to the data, and the data should age over time, with more recent comments and interactions counting more heavily than older ones. Lots of detailed suggestions available upon polite request, but I must warn you that I've been thinking about this topic for some years... I even have suggested solutions for the problem of inherently biased dimensions, where "politeness" might be an example. (Hint: How can you get people to report positive politeness when it is normally taken for granted?)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Definition of "Graphic violence" can be a very subjective term and also can be interpreted by two persons ... differently. Meaning, ask the same thing many people and you will get a lot of different answers. And Not a unique answer.
I figured I'd post the single positive comment on this article. At least Microsoft is being upfront about it. How long had Google been accepting 'offensive' content to grow their dominance then suddenly bans it all once they have the processing power to automatically tag everything?
Well, it started out positive...
Remember, language (and advertising fads) change. Gay used to mean happy. Which of your content will disappear and accounts be banned in a couple years because definitions changed and content filtering services aren't able to take those into account. No one will stand up for you then because you curren't don't stand up for those types of things now.
...into MicroSpank Orifice? mnem Damned shame...
I don't use skype much. There are other services that work just as well and they won't force you to clean up your language.
And belong to Microsoft and they are listening and watching and are judge, jury and executioner.
the "sex trafficking" laws. There are cam girls and whatnot that sell private shows, guess what some of them use? Yea. Microsoft's enemies (Facebook/Google/Apple) helped back this bill.
There's a lot of "OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN@)(*#)$*" bullshit with this. This is how free speech dies, passing laws based on knee jerks that make people, or in this instance, platforms self-censor rather than repealing the 1st amendment.
Our engineers are tired of hearing your foul mouths while they data-mine/eavesdrop on your conversations for incriminating evidence and trade secrets. Most of our employees are contractors with no health insurance, so I'm sure you can imagine how hard it is to keep all of our already overworked and underpaid people drinking the cool-aide in the break-room. That, and what-with our government looking for scapegoats and patsies for every nut-job with a gun these days, we feel you will understand. After all, shit rolls down hill. Locking the accounts of all of the thought criminals, and the wrong-speakers (and the opposing party) is really in every ones best interest. The good people's computers will continue to operate just fine.
Now we can't exactly define offensive language in any certain terms, so we're just going to start locking accounts containing content we don't agree with, or the accounts of anybody our leaderships says is a bad person, or the accounts somebody somewhere else says may be involved in a crime, or the accounts of.... well you get the idea, and again, we're sure you understand, this is for your protection.
Now before you get all huffy puffy in your latte, let me just say, you can't sue us. We already ran this by our lawyers, and they said "If they still don't understand the difference between ownership, and licensing, then we are just going to have to show them the other side of the coin. Nobody actually thought our "free" new OS theirs anyway, it's all right there in the TOS!"
In closing, we wan't to thank you all for being such loyal products, and hope you continue to serve us for many years to come.
Sincerely,
The Microsoft account team.
You are being ripped off every second of every day, so that advertisers can help rip you off even more tomorrow.
See if Slashdot's profanity filter is working.
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shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits
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Maybe it is about giving a reason to record everything you say and do on Skype.
Just about the only thing I wonder when I see a story like this is "How the hell is Microsoft still even in business at this point?" Who is propping them up? Isn't everyone using GNU/Linux (or Macs) now? What business is stupid enough to be using Microsoft Office or any other of their crappy software at this point? What government is so careless with their taxpayer's revenue that they can afford to waste it, squander it really, on trash software that causes more problems than it solves? Especially when there are better, free alternatives to everything Microsoft makes? The appropriate response in the future to any story having anything to do with Microsoft should be, "who?"
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
These large corporations have access to processing power that you can't even imagine and voice analysis is extremely trivial. Monitoring all of their suck...users is a very realistic scenario.
Create a new currency that "mines" for violations in Skype conversations. When you find a violation, you get a coin.
Other people will tell you what you can say. Other people will tell you what you can do. Other people will tell you what you can think.
That's the whole point of the cloud.
Once your data and speech are "hosted" by other people, other people control you.
I'm fucking tired of these goddamn cocksucking bastards that use motherfucking curse words in their ass eating Skype calls. They even use that fucking shit in their Word documents!
Kudos to those bastards at Microsoft for cracking down on those assholes!
There is no policy change.
https://mobile.twitter.com/XboxQwik/status/978699945250242560
More details on reddit in this thread, which may have been the source of the rumor - https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/872grx/updates_to_microsofts_service_agreement_effective/?st=JFAJBVMO&sh=35b91b21
Is this why Microsoft disabled encryption on Skype, so it could be the voice of the nanny state? Microsoft just loves its customers so much to want to be a babysitter of adults.
Micosoft has been recording Skype and Xbox conversations for the longest time. Who knows how long they store that voice data. I don't see why anyone would use their snooping services because now you are being monitored for dirty talk. A single word will get you banned for life.
Will Microsoft ban me if I talk dirty to myself? "Fuck me in the ass!".
I hate to be they guy who said "I told you", but here we are. I knew this was going to come up sooner or later when Cortana was let loose. An agent who is always on, and always listening? It's way too much power. Somewhere, someone _is_ going to fall for the temptation or feel compelled to become big brother, or big sis as it were.
Same thing with Facebook and the Analytica guys. It was so obvious something like that was going to happen, sooner or later. Why are people so terminally stupid and naive? Complacency most likely, and as we know, complacency kills. Not only in a literal sense, it turns out.
Can't they be sued for breaching free speech laws? If govt can't deny free speech how can a company??!
Ps: it's void discussing TOS etc as laws superseed TOS.
wankers
If you use any offensive language anywhere on or near your computer, or store files that have offensive contents, or do anything that's offensive to someone somewhere without even using a computer, Microsoft will withdraw your Windows 10 license and erase all your... I mean _their_, who are we kidding after all... files.
Yeah, this AI revolution will be so great... Only yesterday having automated nannies watching over everyone's shoulders and approving, or disapproving, their behaviour seemed like a dystopian future. Now it seems like it has become a dystopian _now_...
This is absolutely reprehensible and incredibly draconian. I understand maybe banning "offensive" language in gaming because the whole goal is to have fun and I suppose that can ruin it for some (although it certainly adds to the competitive atmosphere for others) but in Skype and e-mail? That's just fucking ridiculous. These are private mediums. Who the hell are they to decide what I can say? It's so overbearing. I'm disgusted that this was even considered, let alone that it's their plan. I will never buy a MS product with this sort of BS. I'd understand such restrictions as a parental control feature but forced upon adults? Really? is this sterilized society going to be attractive to anyone? We can't have legitimate political discussions anymore and now we can't use the language we want either? It doesn't matter if I'd do it or not. In principle, it's appalling. So arbitrary and stupid... yet shortsighted people may argue that this is a good thing.
We could go international (until they improve the algorithms). One of the best swears is Serbian (swearing champions of Europe - Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria), immortalized in the movie Underground where it is used against both the Nazi and the UN "peace keepers" 50 years later - "Mamku im/ti iebem fashistichku". No translation I have seen gives it justice - the official one is "fucking Fascist motherfucker(s)" but it actually is a promise/intention/desire to fuck the mothers of the fascists (swearing on mother is the ultimate offense; only old folks swear on God or disease in our part of the world).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Here - it's what he says just before nutting the UN blue beret (no subs, sorry, you can watch the full version with subs - it is a great movie actually)
All Slavic languages are similar, so the "bad words" are understood by all of us. Some, like "putka" (pussy, cunt) will be recognized by (some) Westerners, like the Spaniards or the French (puta); still, imagine the hilarity in Eastern Europe around the name Vladimir Putin (only the Russians differ slightly here - "pizda" is their word - used in Lord of War for instance). Another recognized one is "hui" which is a dick and of course "eba, ebane" - to fuck.
The Hungarians are a special case. First, their language is of course very different from all (apart from Finish). They swear like crazy! They say "horse dick" with the same ease we say "shit". Hungarians laugh hysterically during the scene in Blade runner when Gaff approaches Deckard at the food joint, he calls him "hey, horse dick!". Olmos was given the task to assemble futuristic, metropolitan blended language (like in Clockwork Orange) so he came up with that :)
The Hungarans are the only ones I am aware off that blended fucking and God in a one swear - the most offensive one there translates literally as "I will fuck your Jesus".
Now, finally I have to announce that I will not be able to use any censored products, since I am genetically disadvantaged (hey, another victim category for the neo-Marxists to protect) - my four grandparents come from four different countries and three of those are the above mentioned champion swearers (the last quarter is Romanian which is not much better). So I can't help it but fuck their fascist mothers....with a horse dick ;)
Everyone should log onto their Xbox and Skype devices, and say the word Fuck! a thousand times over, at the same time.
If one person can't say naughty words, then everybody will be banned.
Go Microsoft Yourself.
It's about time we made that innuendo mainstream.
"Everybody's naked underneath" -- The Doctor
Is gonna be pissed at being banned
So in a private conversation between me and someone else, Microsoft is going to be the morality police?
I've always said these cloud services where they host your data are idiotic. It's your data, it's none of their $%^&* business, and it shouldn't even be accessible to them. Not only do I not wish them to have the content, I do not with to be dependent upon them to keep accessing the data.
Same thing for Cortana and the rest of these idiotic digital assistants -- sorry, I have no interest in an always on microphone which I've always suspected is listening far more than the makers will admit. I disconnected my XBox 360 from the internet once I started seeing ads in games. I paid for the game, I'm not going to accept ads, and I'm certainly not having a camera and microphone in my living room connected to the internet.
And, just like Facebook and the fact that their app is snooping into far more information it should, I have little interest in such apps. Most apps are just a vehicle to sell ads, and collect your information. I've always said that apps which are essentially doing what the web page does exist only to harvest your data and push ads, so I refuse to use anything like that.
Hell, I recently got a LinkedIn invite from someone I don't know on an email account which doesn't associate with LinkedIn, but which I must have been on a common CC list sometime ago and that idiot gave LinkedIn their email password so it could scrape their contacts. Sorry, but I didn't consent to that person to give, or LinkedIn to harvest, my contact information. But I've lost track of the number of sites which are like "oh, just give us your email password and we'll import everyone you know". Fuck that.
Sorry, but the internet is broken. The only way to ensure your data is secure is keep it on your own damned system, and stop installing apps which exist to spy on you.
I've refused to use cloud services, because I'm not paying my ISP/cell carrier to download data I already own and have locally ... I deleted my Facebook profile (which had fake information anyway) years ago and blocked the Facebook domains at my router ... I block the shit out of ads in all of my browsers.
People have been saying I'm a little crazy and paranoid for years when it came to this shit, and people are now starting to realise that what people like me have been saying for years is actually true -- that this shit is doing nothing more than
All of this social media shit, and all of the ads and analytics means the way I use the internet is very controlled. No third party anything, no digital assistants, no social media, and not a fucking thing in the goddamned fucking cloud.
Fuck all of them. Hopefully people start realising just how idiotic the way they use the internet is.
Especially Windows 10.
Bought Office 2016 key, created Microsoft account by FORCE, entered my key, before could redeem Microsoft locked the account now holding my purchased product hostage. 6 hours later, tech support had to re-issue license.
New Meme: Cloud services should not become evil and trap you.
Cloud services trap you and can hold you hostage any time they want. Do as much as possible for yourself
Of course! Now that Windows is a "service", all our files belong to Micro$oft!
... and be done with it.
Obviously you can't do that via Skype, but if you're storing your data on Microsoft's servers (cloud! synergy! apps!) why aren't you encrypting it?
Then, they can't see inside that data to look for "offensive" content.
The most swearing i heard on any of their platforms was directed at their products.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I dont trust ooga booga linux which ships with amazon pre-installed and in-menu ads
A good time for you to go fuck yourself, Microsoft.
Remember folks - Demolition Man was a warning, not an instruction manual - plus, its funnier than 1984 and you don't need to be able to read...
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
So Microsoft is banning everyone with Tourettes syndrome?
Disable Cortana. Then move to Linux.
What about my RIGHT to FREEDOM OF SPEECH?!
Someone needs to educate the fucking idiot foreigner at the MS helm!
Just goes to prove that India naturals need to stay out of US roles.
Who let him away from the overseas help desk anyway?!
WAIT! Now I see it!
Knowing that everyone hates getting a India national that cannot speak or understand intelligible English when you call the help desk,
they want to stop us from cursing at them for their obvious lack of qualifications and stealing good US jobs!
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
I think there was a black mirror episode about something similar.
With cyber security not quite what it should be, the less you put on the internet the better.
Intel / AMD need to redesign CPUs and corporations have to be somehow held accountable financially for stolen user data.
The policy makes no sense legally or otherwise.
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
Nipple